{"slug": "parthenon", "label": "Parthenon", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10288", "qid": "Q10288", "description": "former temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece", "entries": 10, "years": 8, "span": [-579, 1802], "span_label": ["580 BCE", "1802 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "acropolis", "label": "Acropolis", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "british-museum", "label": "British Museum", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "piraeus", "label": "Piraeus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pericles", "label": "Pericles", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -579, "year_label": "580 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "c. 580 BC—The Hecatompedon, a temple dedicated to Athena in Athens, was built at the site later used for the Parthenon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368110656#Events_and_trends", "title": "580s BC", "revid": 1368110656, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -446, "year_label": "447 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Pericles commissions the architects Kallikrates and Iktinos to design a larger temple for the Parthenon and the construction begins on rebuilding the great temple of Athena (the Parthenon) on the Acropolis at Athens soon afterwards.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1196799197#Architecture", "title": "447 BC", "revid": 1196799197, "section": "Events › By subject › Architecture"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Three seated Goddesses (possibly Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite), from the east pediment of the Parthenon, are made (finished in 432 BC). They are now kept at The British Museum in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Art", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Parthenon on the Acropolis at Athens is completed by Ictinus and Callicrates and is consecrated after 9 years of construction. It is dedicated at the Panathenaea (a festival held in honour of Athena every four years on the Acropolis).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Greece", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -437, "year_label": "438 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Ionic frieze on the north side of the Parthenon, is created (finished in 432 BC). Parts of this frieze are now preserved in museums in Europe, including the Horsemen (at the British Museum, London), and the Marshals and Young Women (now at Musée du Louvre, Paris), which once formed part of the Procession on the frieze.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570904#Art", "title": "438 BC", "revid": 1326570904, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -431, "year_label": "432 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Pheidias completes the sculptures that form the decoration of the Parthenon in Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330384213#Architecture", "title": "432 BC", "revid": 1330384213, "section": "Events › By topic › Architecture"}}, {"year": 429, "year_label": "429 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Temple of Goddess Athena on the Acropolis of Athens is sacked. Athenian Pagans are persecuted.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333669155#Roman_Empire", "title": "429", "revid": 1333669155, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 1687, "year_label": "1687 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Half of the Parthenon is destroyed in Athens after mortar shells are fired by Republic of Venice forces under the command of Francesco Morosini in a battle against the Ottoman Empire for control of the city. The strike ignites a stock of gunpowder that the Ottomans had stored inside the 2,200-year-old temple, which had been completed in 438 BC as a shrine to the goddess Athena. During the fighting September 23 and September 29 for control of the Acropolis in the Morean War, the Temple of Athena Nike is demolished and the Propylaea suffers damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363302904#July–September", "title": "1687", "revid": 1363302904, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1801, "year_label": "1801 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370397745#Date_unknown", "title": "1801", "revid": 1370397745, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1802, "year_label": "1802 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they are at risk of destruction during the Ottoman occupation of Greece; the first shipment departs Piraeus on board Elgin's ship, the Mentor, \"with many boxes of moulds and sculptures\", including three marble torsos from the Parthenon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341741915#January–March", "title": "1802", "revid": 1341741915, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}